Exercise & prostate problems.Running may help prevent running to the bathroom at night, at least for men. Many older men head for the bathroom multiple times at night, due to benign prostaric hyperp1asia. Many older men develop an enlarged prostate Enlarged Prostate Definition A non-cancerous condition that affects many men past 50 years of age, enlarged prostate makes urinating more difficult by narrowing the urethra, a tube running from the bladder through the prostate gland. gland that causes lower urinary tract symptoms, including difficult and frequent urination urination Process of excreting urine from the bladder (see urinary system). Nerve centres in the spinal cord, brain stem, and cerebral cortex control it through involuntary and voluntary muscles. The need to void is felt when the bladder holds 3. . However, exercising men suffer prostrate pros·trate tr.v. pros·trat·ed, pros·trat·ing, pros·trates 1. To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration: problems less often than sedentary men do. According to new research physical activity is inversely related to prostate Problems--good news for all you middle-aged and older runners. Several thousand men aged 40 to 75 were studied to determine the correlation between the incidence of prostate surgery and prostate Symptoms and exercise habits. Once again, exercisers are the Winners with an incidence of prostate problems 25% lower than that of sedentary men. The list of good to run just keeps getting longer. (Archives of Internal Medicine The Archives of Internal Medicine is a bi-monthly international peer-reviewed professional medical journal published by the American Medical Association. Archives of Internal Medicine , 1998, Vol. 158, No. 21, pp. 2349 -2356) |
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